Mordechai Scheiner

Mordechai Scheiner (1972-) was the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast from 2002 to 2011.

Biography
Mordechai Scheiner was born in 1972 in Israel to a family of Hasidic Jews, and he spent two years working at a synagogue in Ukraine. In 2002, he came to Russia's Jewish Autonomous Oblast and worked at the Birobidzhan Synagogue with community leader Lev Toitman until Toitman's death in 2007. From 2002 to 2011, Scheiner was Chief Rabbi, and he said that Jewish life in the oblast was reviving in quantity and quality.